It is less dangerous to follow, by being last to start applauding, than to lead, by being first to stop.
Aug 192019
Nothing
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Aug 162019
Children are in fact aliens who employ cunning miniature bodies for purposes of unlimited moral license.
Aug 082019
A little rudeness saves a lot of time.
Aug 052019
Fastidiousness can defeat barbarism but not savagery.
Jul 302019
Hell has no comedy, just an endless discussion of what isn’t funny.
Jul 262019
Our politics, driven more by hatred of the other side than love of our own, possibly betoken a decline in civility but certainly an advance in sense.
Jul 162019
If you want someone to talk, shut up.
Jul 052019
Toady, n. Apprentice bully.
Jun 182019
Many famous and respectable men are incompletely domesticated, and now and then one will do or say something to sabotage his reputation, as a bear will gnaw off its leg to get out of a trap.
Jun 042019
Respectable opinion is a sandbox, and it is the children who play at its edges who guard it most zealously from the children who are not allowed to play at all.